The Glencoe theater was eventually owned by Carl Funk, the son-in-law
of Sam Meyers. When I was a kid a ticket was 0.25 including cartoons and movietone news. The theater also had a very large parking lot across the street in front of the public works garage. Carl let the village park their equipment in the lot when not in use for no charge. He really was a very nice fellow & had a lot of friends in that town. The village was the loser when the theater was razed.

Here is a brief excerpt from a Chicago Daily Tribune article dated May 5, 1940:

Glencoe, which long has lacked a moving picture theater, now is to have two. Plans were announced last March for a 1,100 seat movie at the northeast corner of Scott avenue and Glencoe road. Yesterday it was reported that work is under way on a second playhouse, also to have 1,100 seats.

I could be mistaken, but I thought the Glencoe Theatre had toyed with idea of live music around 1980. But the village was gonna have none of it.
I don’t think nearby Glenview had a theatre, that’s why I’m thinking it was Glencoe.

Thanks. I seem to remember seeing a play in Glenview around 1980.I thought it was in an older theater like building with an equally old stage.
But I could be wrong. Maybe it was strictly an old playhouse of sorts. Glenview was kind of far, and too wealthy for us to have been hangin' out there regularly.

The other proposed movie house mentioned in the Chicago Tribune article quoted by ken mc on Nov 20, 2008, must have been the one mentioned in the March 30, 1940, issue of Boxoffice Magazine. It was to have been designed by Rapp & Rapp, and the small architect’s rendering accompanying the item showed an art moderne building. The scan of the magazine is poor, but I think the name of the new house, to be operated by Sam Meyers, was the Glenwin. Does anybody know if it ever got built?

I worked as an usher at the Glencoe Theater from 1972-1975 while in high school.The Auditorium was very large and beautiful. Some of the movies then were “Deliverance” “Jeremiah Johnson” “Godfather Part II"and "Paper Moon” and “Serpico”. I also changed the sign out front on Thursday evenings, helped at the candy counter, took tickets, etc. Carl Funk was a jovial owner, Bruce Boudreaux was the assistant manager. It had a spacious, comfortable lobby, and lounge off the candy counter, no balcony. We usually showed a cartoon before the feature.A great place to work,most fun job I ever had! My younger sister and older brother also worked there.